Tag Archives: Sir Hans Sloane

Visitors to this site might have or know of brilliant undergraduates or Master’s students looking for a funded PhD position. ‘Hans Sloane’s Books: an early Enlightenment library and its material relationships’ is funded by the AHRC (UK), and is a … Continue reading →

My research interests focus on intersections between museology and history of collecting, history of science, history of the book, and visual culture. This is not historically bound by period: what is of interest to me is the interdisciplinarity of the … Continue reading →

I am researcher at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences). I wrote a dissertation on the notion of the ‘Book of Nature’ in early modern Dutch culture, a subject which … Continue reading →

I have two main research interests: The first arose from my MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies at King’s College London, in conjunction with the British Museum, and concerns women’s involvement in the early modern culture of natural history, and the ‘hybrid’ texts, … Continue reading →

At the National Library of Portugal, Lisbon, where an international conference was held (2/3 February) on the topic of ‘Libraries and the Scientific Book (XV-XVIII centuries): objects, spaces and ideas‘, Dr Florike Egmond presented her discovery of the original drawings … Continue reading →